Magicon
Author | : Dr. Paulus |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2014-09-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781502533456 |
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Magicon is professedly a New Church book, but of a different class from any we have ever seen before. It rejects and denounces the Swedenborgian organizations, makes awful predictions, especially of the destruction of the wicked out of the world and of New York city as the wickedest of any, — all preparatory to the descent of the New Jerusalem. We give the title of the book in full; it is published at New York, publisher's name not given: "Magicon: Wonderful Prophecies concerning Popery and its Impending Overthrow and Fall, together with Predictions relative to America, the End of the World, and the Formation of the New Earth; also concerning the True Beginning and Future of the New Church called the New Jerusalem, with Twenty-four Magic Figures. By Dr. Paulus." —The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review, Volume 47 * * * * * From the Introduction: THERE Is A God!—All nature proclaims His existence; it is echoed forth with ten thousand, thousand voices, from the countless works of His hand, throughout this stupendous universe! The whole history of man bears witness to the truth that there is a God; we see it inscribed on every page, in sublime and eternal characters. Never, indeed, has mankind entirely lost this sacred creed, although it has, at times, been obscured, by passing from one nation, tribe, or generation, to another. With the belief in the existence of a Supreme Being, are all the highest aspirations of the human soul most intimately interwoven. Every achievement of man, however "lofty and sublime, will— if not resting on the everlasting pillars of this glorious creed—appear, with all its grandeur, but little better than the empty and trifling pastimes of a child! In vain do we try to search out His grandeur, by scrutinizing with our microscopes the infinitely small; nor shall we, thinking to have found in the laws of motion a clue to His never-ceasing creative power, discover His throne amid the interminable space. This puerile searching in the material world serves only to lead ns astray from our true path—from the path of light and spiritual understanding. Of what avail are the diplomacy and state-craft of the so-called civilized nations, whose giant structures of polity, reared with so much subtlety, and with so many hecatombs of victims, we behold crumbling to pieces on every side! And that vast accumulation of philosophical works, which we are wont to admire as master-pieces of the human intellect, one of which refutes another—what are they, but a proof that all and every thing conceived without the Spirit of God, must sooner or later come to naught! This has been the mode in which all reasoning minds have looked at history, ever since its beginning. Still we see eminent men who, eagerly grasping after the unknown, lose their foothold at the very moment they thought themselves nearest the victory….